New and Selected Poems

by SCHEVILL JAMES

• ISBN13: 9780804010283
• ISBN10: 0804010285
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
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Summary

From a poetic career that spans more than half a century, and that is still producing poems as fresh and as honest as the first, comes James Schevill's New and Selected Poems, redefining the achievement of this uniquely American vision.

Author Biography

James Schevill is a poet, playwright, and Emeritus Professor of English at Brown University. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Margot

Table of Contents

New Poems
Wildfire Vision	3	(2)
Nevada Bus Encounter	5	(1)
The Last Decade of de Kooning's Paintings	6	(1)
The Pale Man: Joseph Cornell	7	(2)
Kafka in Prague	9	(3)
Master of the Colloquial	12	(1)
Seeing the Wind	13	(1)
The Memory of It	14	(1)
The Continuous River	15	(1)
Threat of Invisible Wind-Voices	16	(1)
Race Car Driver	17	(2)
Playground Pickup Game in the Time of Millionaire Basketball Players	19	(2)
A Jazz Master Improvising	21	(1)
Quixote Visions	22	(5)
The Rembrandt Confrontation	27	(18)
Selected Poems
From Private Dooms and Public Destinations: Poems 1945-1962
The Will of Writing	45	(1)
In the Peaceable Kingdom a Man Sings of Love	46	(1)
Funeral	47	(1)
A Plea for Alias	48	(1)
A Guilty Father to His Daughter	49	(1)
Death of a Cat	50	(2)
Neighbors	52	(2)
The Momentary Glimpses of Women through Windows	54	(1)
The Rake's Resentment of Verdi's Falstaff	55	(1)
The Descent: Hotel Biron (The Rodin Museum)	56	(2)
Stories of the Soviet Union: June 1961	58	(6)
From Sword, Sex, and God's Word at the Philosopher's Gate	64	(9)
From The Stalingrad Elegies (1964)
The Piano on the Street	73	(3)
The Snow Woman	76	(1)
The Wound of Flatness	77	(4)
From Violence and Glory: Poems 1962-1968
Withered Daffodils	81	(1)
London Pavement Artist	82	(1)
After the Objects, a Subject	83	(1)
The Clear Angels of Dawn in the Country	84	(3)
From Ambiguous Dancers of Fame (1987)
Mexican Flower Arrangement	87	(1)
The Dreamer of Light Sings His Song of Sounds	88	(1)
Roadblock	89	(1)
Neighboring Walls	90	(1)
The Writer and the Gardener	91	(1)
The Gardener's Celebration	92	(1)
The First Heavy Rain of the Rainy Season	93	(1)
Dog-Pack	94	(1)
Frank Lloyd Wright Desperately Designing a Chair	95	(1)
The Oedipus Scream of Olivier	96	(1)
All Day Driving across Kansas	97	(1)
Love Song in Summer's Furnace Heat	98	(3)
From The Complete American Fantasies (1996)
Always We Walk through Unknown People	101	(1)
The Country Fair of Childhood	102	(1)
Hats and Ears for Charles Ives	103	(3)
Wallace Stevens at Ease with Marble Cake	106	(1)
The Peaceable Kingdom of Edward Hicks	107	(1)
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Melville at Home, Isolated in Their Rooms	108	(1)
Huck Finn at Ninety, Dying in a Chicago Boardinghouse Room	109	(1)
Bashir Was My Name	110	(2)
On the Burning of Mingus's Bass	112	(1)
What Are the Most Unusual Things You Find in Garbage Cans?	113	(5)
Kristallnacht	118	(2)
Green Frog at Roadstead, Wisconsin	120	(1)
Love, Do Not Shun the Dark Gargoyle	121	(1)
The Mathematician Thinking of Ghost Numbers	122	(1)
On the Beach Watched by a Sea Gull	123	(1)
A Screamer Discusses Methods of Screaming	124	(1)
Street Corner Signals	125	(1)
Dancing over London Bridge in the Arizona Desert at Lake Havasu	126
William Carlos Williams
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